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Iowa Cubs outfielder Owen Caissie one of the organization's most powerful hitters

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AI-assisted summaryChicago Cubs prospect Owen Caissie is the organization’s top-ranked prospect due to his impressive power.Caissie’s dedication to training and hard work from a young age has contributed to his success.The 22-year-old’s power has drawn attention and trade rumors, but he remains focused on his game.A 17-year-old Owen Caissie dug into the batter’s box for the Canadian Junior National team late in an exhibition game against the Toronto Blue Jays at TD Ballpark in Dunedin, Fla., on March 12, 2020, with a big opportunity. Caissie, who was hitless on the day, jumped on an early offering from veteran minor league pitcher Connor Overton and crushed it.

“He got it good,” said Canada manager Greg Hamilton.

Caissie got it really good. The left-handed hitting slugger launched the fastball to deep centerfield. The ball cleared the fence and into the batter’s eye of the park for a home run that Hamilton estimates traveled well over 400 feet.

“It was an eye-opener for a lot of people,” Hamilton said.

Caissie has possessed that type of power for a long time. It’s a big reason the San Diego Padres drafted him later that year and why the Chicago Cubs eventually acquired him in a trade. That power is why the 22-year-old is now ranked as the top prospect in Chicago’s organization, according to MLB Pipeline.

“It’s not that surprising that he’s doing well,” Hamilton said.

Iowa Cubs' Owen Caissie throws from the outfield during a game at Principal Park on June 14, 2025, in Des Moines.

Hard work leads to a lot of power for Caissie

Caissie has been working on his power for years. When he was a little kid, he hit off a tee that his dad, Jason Caissie, set up in the family’s garage. Owen Caissie watched highlights of Major League Baseball stars, including Barry Bonds and Aaron Judge. He studied their techniques and stances, trying to figure out where they got their power from.

He implemented it into his swing and started recording his hacks so he could evaluate them. When Caissie was just 10, he began getting lessons with coaches from the Fieldhouse Pirates, an elite baseball club in Canada. Jimmy Richardson, the director of baseball operations for the club, could tell Caissie had a big bat right away.“He had an incredible ability to get the barrel to the ball, even at that age,” Richardson said.Some of that came from a natural ability. But the bulk of it came from the work Caissie was willing to put in. Even back then, Caissie was willing to work as hard as possible to become a star player. He became a regular at the Pirates’ indoor facility, coming in seven days a week by the time he was just 12.The work produced big-time results with Caissie clobbering baseballs further than any of the other kids his age. Jason Caissie remembers his son belting one during a game that landed about 60 feet beyond the fence. He estimates it traveled 370 feet. Owen Caissie was just 14 at the time.Iowa Cubs' Owen Caissie (17) swings at the ball on Friday, March 28, 2025, at Principal Park in Des Moines.The success only made Caissie work harder. He spent most of his days training at the facility. After school, he’d ride his bike over and hit for a few hours. Caissie then got a break when his parents picked him up for dinner. Later in the evening, he returned for practice for several more hours with the Pirates.Even after those practices ended, Caissie stuck around, sometimes staying as late as midnight to get as many extra swings in as he could. He stayed so late that he sometimes locked the facility for the night. That became the norm throughout high school.”I didn’t party,” Caissie said. “I didn’t go to a single high school party. I was just in the cage all the time with a bunch of buddies and that’s all we did, really. I wouldn’t have it any other way.”Caissie’s relentless work ethic paid off. By the time he turned 16, he was popping on the radar of college coaches. The Burlington, Ontario, native traveled to the United States with his teammates from the Pirates to compete in Prep Baseball Report tournaments.During a dominating performance at one of the tournaments, Caissie earned a scholarship offer from Kentucky. Caissie committed, but it didn’t last. As he got older, his swing got better and his body got bigger. He grew into his frame, shot up several inches and added 25 pounds one season.The power hitter put his talents on display during the Tournament 12 showcase at Toronto’s Rogers Centre in 2019. Caissie won the event, hitting balls into the second deck of the Blue Jays’ stadium, Hamilton said.When Caissie reopened his recruitment, some of the top college programs from across the United States started reaching out to him. He eventually committed to Michigan, but Caissie’s stock continued to soar throughout high school. The peak may have come during the exhibition game against the Blue Jays.He was hitless early in the game. Then he belted the home run against Overton, a long-time minor-league pitcher who eventually went on to pitch in the big leagues. Hamilton believes Caissie showed the ability to not only hit pro pitching, but do it at a high level with a wood bat. He believes that it likely helped Caissie’s draft stock.Caissie agrees.”I think it really helped my career,” Caissie said. “Jumpstart it for sure.”The Padres selected Caissie in the second round of the MLB Draft three months later. But the hard work Caissie was putting in didn’t stop after making it to professional baseball.Iowa Cubs' Owen Caissie (17) swings at the ball during a game against the Omaha Storm Chasers on Friday, March 28, 2025, at Principal Park in Des Moines.Caissie gets traded and continues to deal with trade talkCaissie was back in Canada training at the Fieldhouse Pirates facility in December of 2020 when his phone rang. It was his agent letting him know he may be traded. Caissie took a few minutes to digest the information. Then he did what he usually does. He went back to work.”I just got drafted, so I didn’t really have any real connections to the Padres,” Caissie said. “I hadn’t really established a super deep connection with them. So, it was kind of crazy.”Caissie was part of a deal that sent Zach Davies, Reginald Preciado, Yeison Santana and Ismael Mena to the Cubs for star Yu Darvish and Victor Caratini. The Cubs quickly got a look at the power that Caissie had. During his first season of professional baseball, he hit .302 with 11 doubles and seven homers in 52 games across two levels.The following season, Caissie helped High-A South Bend to a championship. During one game, he smashed a home run that went out of the stadium and over a workout barn. The ball bounced past two buses in the parking lot and was brought back to the dugout, where it was given to Caissie’s dad.”He absolutely crushed it,” Jason Caissie said.That was just a sign of things to come for Caissie, who hit .289 with a .917 OPS and 22 homers for Double-A Tennessee in 2023. He made his Triple-A debut in 2024 and became one of the best hitters in the Cubs organization, hitting .278 with 29 doubles and 19 homers.The success earned Caissie an invite to play in the 2024 All-Star Futures Game, a contest that features some of the best prospects in Minor League Baseball. An injury kept Caissie from playing in it, but it didn’t slow him down. After the season, Caissie was placed on the 40-man roster by the Cubs.While Caissie possesses a strong arm, plays some good defense and can run the bases well, it’s his power that makes him so valuable. Cubs officials have said over the years that Caissie has boasted not only some of the best exit velocity numbers in baseball.”From a bat speed perspective and the way he squares a ball up, I mean, he’s 107, 108 consistently,” said Iowa manager Marty Pevey.Caissie has continued doing it. Despite battling injuries and a sickness recently, Caissie has put together another strong season in Triple-A. During his first 65 games with Iowa this season, Caissie tallied a .876 OPS with 18 doubles and 12 home runs.The recent run of success has moved Caissie into the top spot in the organization’s prospect rankings and he was recently invited back to the All-Star Futures Game. With how well he’s performed, Caissie has constantly been at the center of trade rumors the last two seasons.

This season is no different, especially with the Cubs searching for help down the stretch. Caissie is one of the team’s top minor league commodities and could be on the move again before the trade deadline. He’s trying to tune all the talk out and said that last year, he even got rid of his Twitter account.

“I really just try not to look at it and just play baseball because you can try and play GM, but that doesn’t work,” Caissie said. “It never works. You can think what you want to think, but nothing is really set and final until it actually happens or it doesn’t. So, I really just try to play ball and just come to the park every day and have a good attitude.”

That positive approach has been a part of Caissie’s game for a while. Richardson said that following Caissie’s 2023 season, the slugger returned to Canada and traveled with the Pirates for their annual college fall trip. After enduring a full season in the minors, Caissie hopped on a bus with the young players and coaches for about two weeks while they traveled around playing games. The bus rides would sometimes be as long as 12 hours.

Caissie, wanting to help mentor a new wave of Canadian players, gave them advice, picked up meal tabs and even bought a phone battery when one of their phones died. The team would spend as many as 10 hours a day at the field. Caissie voluntarily joined in.

“He’s just a first-class human being,” Richardson said. “He’ll give the shirt off his back if he thought it was going to help somebody.”

Caissie is also an elite worker. Which is why it may be only a matter of time before he finally reaches the big leagues.

“He’s the hardest working person I’ve ever seen in my life at anything,” Richardson said. “I’ve been doing this for 15 years and there is no one that comes close to matching his work ethic that has ever come through our program. We’ve got pro guys from other organizations that come in, in the offseason as well and he’s just wired different than 99% of the population.”

Tommy Birch, the Register’s sports enterprise and features reporter, has been working at the newspaper since 2008. He’s the 2018, 2020 and 2023 Iowa Sportswriter of the Year. Reach him at tbirch@dmreg.com or 515-284-8468

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Kentucky Volleyball falls to Texas A&M in the National Championship Match

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (WKYT) – In its second ever NCAA championship match, the Kentucky Volleyball team fell to Texas A&M, ending its season as the national runner-up.

The loss also ends Kentucky’s 27-match winning streak.

Kentucky came out flat against Wisconsin and made sure the opposite happened in this game. The Wildcats (30-3) jumped out to a 10-4 lead highlighted by three early blocks with two coming from Asia Thigpin.

The Aggies (29-4) would eventually settle in and go on 6-1 run heading into the final phase of the set, forcing Kentucky to call a timeout after A&M pulled within two. The set would end up being tied at 24 after an A&M kill.

Texas A&M would end up scoring the next two points to take set one 26-24.

A&M’s momentum carried over to start the second set. The Aggies defense was leading the way, preventing a lot of Kentucky attacks from reaching the floor and built a wall at the net that led to multiple blocks.

The Wildcats couldn’t muster any offense, going down 10-5 before calling at timeout. At that point, UK was hitting .000% with only three kills on 20 attempts.

The A&M front line was causing problems all set, which threw the Cats off. Kentucky took its final timeout of the set after going down 15-7.

Kentucky would end up dropping set two 25-15 into the five minute break. The Cats would have to pull out a reverse sweep to win.

The pressure from the Aggies continued in the third set. A&M took an early 8-3 advantage. UK would climb back in it within two, down 10-8. The Aggies would go into the tv break up 15-10.

A&M would go on another small 4-1 run, only six points away from the title, when Kentucky took its final timeout of the match down 19-11.

Texas A&M would go on to close out the match 25-20 claiming the first national championship in program history and ending Kentucky’s 27-match winning streak and season.

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Texas A&M Sweeps Kentucky in National Championship Match – UK Athletics

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The Texas A&M Aggies swept top-seeded Kentucky 3-0 (26-24, 25-15, 25-20) on Sunday to win the 2025 NCAA Volleyball Championship. The win for Texas A&M marks its first NCAA national championship in program history and the Aggies become the second school all-time to win the title out of the Southeastern Conference.

Kentucky had a set point in set one at 24-23, but the Aggies closed the set on a 3-0 run with a UK hitting error and a TAMU stuff to close the set, 26-24 and TAMU never trailed again the entire rest of the match. The Wildcats finish their historic season 30-3 overall with Sunday’s loss snapping a 27-match win streak. UK won the SEC regular season with a perfect league record and defeated Texas in five sets to win the SEC Tournament Championship back in November.

Sunday marked the final match in the Blue and White for Eva Hudson, who as the lone senior on the team, closes her career. Hudson was the 2025 SEC Player of the Year, an AVCA First Team All-American and finalist for AVCA National Player of the Year. She finished Sunday’s match with 13 kills on 45 swings and four digs. Hudson was named to the NCAA Final Four All-Tournament Team with Texas A&M’s Ifenna Cos-Okpalla named the MOP of the tournament.

This was Kentucky’s second time in the NCAA National Championship match in program history, with the first coming back in 2020 in Omaha, when the Wildcats beat Texas 3-1 to secure the program and the conference’s first-ever NCAA title. This was also UK’s second appearance in the NCAA Final Four with 2020 being the first in program history.

For Texas A&M, the Aggies were led by Logan Lednicky who registered 11 kills on 32 swings with Kyndal Stowers having 10 to put two TAMU players into double figures Sunday afternoon. TAMU as a team sided out at 70 percent or better in all three sets, something no opponent Kentucky played all season did in a single set, much less three in one set. Texas A&M finishes its season with a 29-4 record and was 14-1 in the SEC.

Set 1

Kentucky was in front for a majority of the opening set with its lead as large as six points as late as 18-12, but the Aggies came back to take the set in a deuce frame, 26-24 as UK’s passing fell apart down the stretch of the set. Kentucky scored the first three points of the frame and took a 6-1 lead through seven points that pushed the Aggies into an early timeout down by five. A&M could not close the gap for the large spread of the set with a kill from Kennedy Washington on a slide making things 18-12 as TAMU called its second and final timeout. Out of the stoppage, an Aggie sideout led to a 5-0 Aggie run and Texas A&M pulled even with the Wildcats at 20-20. UK got a kill from Eva Hudson at 23-23 to hand the Wildcats a set point, but that attempt was thwarted by the Aggies and TAMU proceeded to close the set on a 3-0 run to take the opening set, 26-24. Kentucky hit .171 in the set with Texas A&M hitting .205. Hudson, Brooklyn DeLeye and Lizzie Carr led the way for UK with four kills each as Kennedy Washington also had a pair for UK. Kassie O’Brien logged 15 assists on 16 of UK’s kills with Hudson’s four digs leading the way for the Wildcat defense.

Set 2

Texas A&M dominated the second set from start to finish, taking the 2-0 lead with a 25-15 second set win. Kentucky hit negative in a set for the first time all season as the Wildcats had just 10 kills to 11 errors in the frame to hit -.021. TAMU’s lead was as many as 10 at 20-10 and the teams exchanged points to the finish line as the Wildcats only scored back-to-back points in the set one time. The loss in the set marked just the second time this season that UK was held to 15 points or fewer with the other being in Thursday night’s semifinal match vs. Wisconsin when the Badgers beat UK 25-12 in the opening set. With the 2-0 lead, it marked the fourth time this season that UK had lost the first two sets in a match with UK’s matches vs. Pitt, Texas and Oklahoma being the other three and UK holding a 2-1 record in those matches.

Set 3

Texas A&M won five of the first six points and ran away from the Wildcats in the third set. The Aggies sided out at 70 percent in the third set and won the match on their second Championship Point to close things out, 25-20.

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The Star’s All-County Girls Volleyball First Team for the 2025 season

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SAYLOR HALVORSEN, Thousand Oaks: In just her second year of high school volleyball, the 6-foot-2 sophomore outside hitter was simply a dominant force on the court this fall. Nicknamed "Gamechanger" by head coach James Park, Halvorsen racked up 373 kills, 61 aces, 147 digs and 44 total blocks, including an incredible 41 solo stuffs, and led her team in kills, aces and blocks. She had the best hitting percentage amongst the best hitting corps in the area. Halvorsen received first-team all-Marmonte League honors.

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In just her second year of high school volleyball, the 6-foot-2 sophomore outside hitter was simply a dominant force on the court this fall. Nicknamed “Gamechanger” by head coach James Park, Halvorsen racked up 373 kills, 61 aces, 147 digs and 44 total blocks, including an incredible 41 solo stuffs, and led her team in kills, aces and blocks. She had the best hitting percentage amongst the best hitting corps in the area. Halvorsen received first-team all-Marmonte League honors. 

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Texas A&M wins 2025 DI women’s volleyball championship

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No. 3 Texas A&M swept No. 1 Kentucky to win the 2025 DI women’s volleyball championship on Sunday, Dec. 21 at the T-Mobile Center in Kansas City, Missouri. 

Both programs earned their spot in the final after clinching victories on Thursday, Dec. 18 to set up the first ever all-SEC national championship in DI women’s volleyball history. 

The Aggies knocked off No. 1 Pitt in three straight sets, continuing their historic season by etching their names in the program’s first-ever national championship. Kyndal Stowers powered the Maroon and White with 16 kills on .433 hitting while setter Maddie Waak orchestrated her balanced offense to an impressive .382 clip with four different Aggies earning at least eight put-aways. Texas A&M has now knocked off back-to-back No. 1 seeds (Nebraska, Pitt) and look to the next in No. 1 Kentucky. 

Big Blue earned a dramatic five-setter victory over No. 3 Wisconsin to earn its second ever national championship appearance and first since their 2021 national title. The Badgers seemed to have all control after a Set 1 25-12 victory, but Kentucky wouldn’t be denied. Eva Hudson was on fire, accruing 29 kills on .455 hitting while Molly Tuozzo’s back-court defense with 17 critical digs fought off a career night from Mimi Colyer. The Cats have the momentum heading into Sunday’s match with 27 straight wins. 

The full 64-team bracket was announced on Sunday, Nov. 30. Thirty-one conference champions earned automatic bids to the tournament, with the NCAA DI women’s volleyball committee selecting 33 other teams as at-large picks.

Here is everything you need to know about the 2025 women’s volleyball championship.

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2025 DI women’s volleyball championship schedule

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  • Selection show: 6 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 30
  • First round: 
    • Thursday, Dec. 4 
      • No. 5 Colorado 3, American 0
      • No. 6 Baylor 3, Arkansas State 2
      • No. 8 UCLA 3, Georgia Tech 2
      • No. 5 Miami (Fla.) 3, Tulsa 1
      • No. 4 Indiana 3, Toledo 0
      • No. 6 UNI 3, Utah 2
      • North Carolina 3, No. 6 UTEP 1
      • Utah State 3, No. 7 Tennessee 2
      • No. 1 Kentucky 3, Wofford 0
      • No. 3 Purdue 3, Wright State 0
      • No. 4 Kansas 3, High Point 0
      • Cal Poly 3, No. 5 BYU 2
      • No. 3 Creighton 3, Northern Colorado 2
      • No. 3 Wisconsin 3, Eastern Illinois 0
      • No. 2 Arizona State 3, Coppin State 0
      • No. 4 USC 3, Princeton 0
    • Friday, Dec. 5
      • Marquette 3, No. 7 Western Kentucky 0
      • Michigan 3, No. 8 Xavier 0
      • Florida 3, No. 7 Rice 0
      • No. 6 TCU 3, SFA 0
      • No. 5 Iowa State 3, St. Thomas (Minn.) 2
      • No. 8 Penn State 3, South Florida 1
      • Kansas State 3, No. 8 San Diego 2
      • No. 2 Louisville 3, Loyola Chicago 0
      • No. 1 Pittsburgh 3, UMBC 0
      • No. 2 SMU 3, Central Arkansas 0
      • Arizona 3, No. 7 South Dakota State 1
      • No. 3 Texas A&M 3, Campbell 0
      • No. 4 Minnesota 3, Fairfield 0
      • No. 1 Nebraska 3, LIU 0
      • No. 1 Texas 3, Florida A&M 0
      • No. 2 Stanford 3, Utah Valley 1
  • Second Round: 
    • Friday, Dec. 5
    • Saturday, Dec. 6
  • Regionals
    • Thursday, Dec. 11
    • Friday, Dec. 12
    • Saturday, Dec. 13
    • Sunday, Dec. 14
    • Semifinals: Thursday, Dec. 18
    • National championship: Sunday, Dec. 21

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NCAA women’s volleyball Way-Too-Early Top 10 for 2026

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The buzz from a thrilling NCAA volleyball tournament final four in Kansas City and a Texas A&M national championship hasn’t dimmed, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t too early to start thinking about next season. With the transfer portal already open, most of the country’s players and coaches already have.

Nebraska’s dominance this season looked like a forgone conclusion. Then one afternoon in Lincoln, Texas A&M shocked the world and turned the run to the national championship into a wide-open affair.

That’s what 2026 should be from the outset. So many great players like Pitt’s Olivia Babcock, Nebraska’s Harper Murray and Kentucky’s Brooklyn DeLeye are back and will be on teams with a chance at a title.

The transfer portal has yet to take hold in full. Many rosters could get a shake up in the coming weeks. This top 10 is based on what we know now and is a little peek into how the run to next season’s final four in San Antonio could shake out.

1. Texas Longhorns

The freshman class, led by Cari Spears and Abby Vander Wal, was instrumental in getting the Longhorns back to a No. 1 NCAA tournament seed. The Longhorns’ recruiting class for 2026 looks just as good with top-rated outside hitter, Henley Anderson, and top setter, Genevieve Harris. They will all still be led by Torrey Stafford, the 12th-best point producer in the country and one of the best all-around players.

2. Stanford Cardinal

Stanford tied for the ACC championship and did it with 14 freshmen and sophomores on the roster. Top hitter Elia Rubin will be tough to say goodbye to, but the Cardinal will have the depth and talent to win their first national title since 2019.

3. Nebraska Cornhuskers

The invincibility of 2025 Nebraska won’t be there with the losses of Rebekah Allick and Taylor Landfair. But Bergen Reilly, Murray and Andi Jackson form a core capable of the national championship that eluded the Huskers following their stunning loss to Texas A&M in the regional finals.

4. Wisconsin Badgers

The offseason might be nearly as long for Wisconsin as it is for Nebraska, as the Badgers ponder how it let the national semifinal match against Kentucky slip away. Coach Kelly Sheffield will also have to worry about replacing the likes of Mimi Colyer and Carter Booth, but a talented group of underclassmen led by All-American setter Charlie Fuerbringer will make Wisconsin a final four contender again.

5. Pittsburgh Panthers

The good news is that Pittsburgh has reached five straight final fours and still has Babcock for one more season. The bad news — the Panthers again failed to advance to a national championship game and will lose all-ACC setter Brooke Mosher.

6. Kentucky Wildcats

With the graduation of Eva Hudson, who was so vital to the Wildcats’ run to the final four, and the jump that Texas is expected to take, Kentucky’s streak of nine straight SEC titles could be in jeopardy. But top hitter DeLeye is back for her senior year and she’ll be joined by Lizzie Carr, Asia Thigpen and Kennedy Washington, Kentucky’s third-, fourth- and fifth-best scorers from this season.

7. Louisville Cardinals

With the ACC Freshman of the Year in Kalyssa Blackshear, the conference leader in blocks in Cara Cresse, the ACC’s second-leading setter in Nayelis Cabello and their top two hitters — Payton Petersen and Chloe Chicoine — all back, the Cardinals will be in position to shake off the disappointment of a fourth-place ACC finish and a loss in the regional semifinals of the NCAA tournament, their earliest exit since 2020.

8. SMU Mustangs

While setter Averi Carlson and top hitter Malaya Jones have used up their eligibility, the sophomore trio of Jadyn Livings, Favor Anyanwu and Natalia Newsome are expected back. Full, healthy seasons from Livings and Newsome would be a big boost. So will the addition of Big 12 Freshman of the Year Suli Davis, who has already announced her transfer to SMU from BYU.

9. Purdue Boilermakers

Purdue, the surprise team of the season, was picked seventh in the Big Ten in the preseason yet reached the Elite Eight. Ravaged by transfers (Hudson and Carr were Boilermakers in 2024) and graduation and with a roster with just two seniors, Purdue leaned into its underdog role. That won’t be the case in 2026 if Purdue can keep a well-balanced team led by Kenna Wollard and Grace Heaney intact.

10. Texas A&M Aggies

The losses of program mainstay Logan Lednicky and setter Maddie Waak make repeating this season’s magic seem unlikely. However, the star power of Kyndal Stowers is obvious, which might be good enough to make the SEC a three-team race.

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ACU unveils 2026 indoor, outdoor Track and Field schedules

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ABILENE, Texas — The ACU Wildcats have released their 2026 track and field schedule, the team announced on social media.

ACU’s indoor season began December 6 with the 12-Degree McFerrin Invitational in College Station, Texas.

The Wildcats’ next meet is set for January 16-17 in Lubbock, Texas with the Corky Classic.

The rest of ACU’s indoor schedule is as follows:

  • January 23: Stan Scott Invite (Lubbock, TX)
  • January 30-31: Robert Platt Invitational (Houston, TX)
  • February 6-7: Charlie Thomas Invitational (College Station, TX)
  • February 13-14: Jarvis Scott Invitational (Lubbock, TX)
  • February 27-28: WAC Indoor Track & Field Championships (Spokane, WA)
  • March 13-14: NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships (Fayetteville, AR)

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The Wildcats are set to kick off their outdoor season March 20-21, as ACU is hosting the Wes Kittley Invitational.

The rest of their outdoor schedule is as follows:

  • March 26-27: Angelo State David Noble Relays (San Angelo, TX), Texas Tech Masked Raider Invite (Lubbock, TX)
  • April 3-4: Texas Relays (Austin, TX)
  • April 10-11: McMurry War Hawk Classic (Abilene, TX)
  • April 17-18: Tarleton State Joe Gillespie Invitational (Stephenville, TX)
  • April 24-25: Baylor Michael Johnson Invitational (Waco, TX)
  • May 1-2: Texas Tech Corky/Crofoot shootout (Lubbock, TX)
  • May 15-16: WAC Outdoor Championships (Arlington, TX)
  • May 27-30: NCAA Outdoor Championships – West Preliminary (Fayetteville, AR)



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